John R Mackay - The Jews in New Testament Prophecy
The whole New Testament is prophecy in the sense that the writers thereof were organs of the Holy Spirit. Whether, then, the writers narrated events that belonged to the remote past, or whether they expounded the significance of the Incarnation of the Son of God which had come to pass in their own day, or whether they predicted events that were destined to come to pass after they wrote, they spoke as the very mouth of God; in the largest sense of the term, they prophesied. But in popular speech, as sometimes in the Scriptures themselves, prophecy is taken in the sense of prediction, one of the several forms which prophecy, in the Biblical sense, may assume; and it is in that narrower and popular sense that we use the term prophecy here. For the present, indeed, it is proposed merely to draw attention to one single oracle of the New Testament which relates to the future of the Jews, and to what that future means for all mankind: ‘If the cutting away of them be the reconciliation of the ...